Dorothy Brown
By Dorothy Brown
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News In Search of Slovakia’s Jewish Heritage
Tomas Stern was born decades after World War II, decades after Nazi Slovak militia fired bullets into a pile of hay, narrowly missing his father — not yet 5 years old — who lay trembling beneath the straw. “They got some information that there are some Jews hiding there, so they ran into the stable,”…
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Culture Was She at Risk for Cancer or Wasn’t She?
As a newlywed in the 1970s, I watched my vibrant, stylish maternal grandmother go from trim to gaunt. She and my grandfather had raced their family out of Vienna the day Hitler marched in. But now she was diagnosed with an ovarian tumor the size of an orange, too late for treatment to save her…
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News Zoomers? Wellderly? Geri-Actives? Who?!
Elderly. Senior. Senior citizen. Aged. Oldster. Old. The words rile. They’re not me. I ski, bike, climb mountains, blog, freelance and, yes, enjoy sex — even as I qualify for Social Security. Nor do they describe an energized generation of 60- and 70-somethings and beyond, many of whom shun the word “retirement.” These men and…
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Culture HBO Documentary Tells Story of Kindertransport That Saved 50 Children
**EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of the 75th anniversary of the kindertransports, we remember the dramatic story of 50 Jewish children’s rescue from the Nazis, which started in Vienna and wound up Philadelphia. ** In early January of 1939, New York businessman Louis Levine traveled to Philadelphia to meet with Gilbert Kraus, the man he believed…
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Culture Mysterious Childhood Diseases of Sephardim
If you were watching the BBC this spring, you would have seen one of Israel’s foremost geneticists debating the issue of marriage to close family members in Doha, Qatar — at the heart of the Arab world. At the Doha Debates Dr. Ohad Birk, who heads the Center for Human Genetics Research at the National…
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